Quotes About Perspective

A person without regrets is called a corpse.

There are 2 kinds of people in the world. Those who enjoy a nice salami and those who have no souls.

Women have to be in the mood for sex. Men have to be breathing.

Of course I believe in hell. I have three brothers.

You really don't know a person until you spend some time in their panties.

Old-age sucks, but the alternative doesn't look that great, either.

Maybe there's no such thing as happily ever after. Maybe okay for now is the best you get.

Generally, men are superior in the areas of heavy lifting, where there's a past only by pachyderms and building cranes. Beyond that, I believe any right-thinking thinking will see that women have the indisputable advantage.

The theory of relativity doesn't amount to a hill of beans when there's a bonfire in your shorts.

There isn't much a pan of warm Brownies and a glass of milk will fix. In less it's low grain prices. Or poverty. Or the national debt. I guess there are a few things, but nothing you have to worry about right this minute.

Yeah, world peace would be all right, but what about a day off in a slab of ham the size of my head.

Life's funny. Sometimes it's your oyster, and sometimes you're it's bitch-slapped man-whore.

Sometimes what really damages us is not so much the controversy but the impression that we don't really understand others' objections.

They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that he could not change that for them.

Check your assumptions. In fact, check your assumptions at the door.

I wondered if we could ever truly understand each other, and if not, did it matter? Maybe that was where we had been going wrong all this time, always trying to understand, to make sense, to control, to fit Iran into our own frame of reference, instead of simply accepting?

I was ashamed to find myself contemplating that for the traveller, Iran's charms lay in its isolation. This was not a mindset I liked, or approved of; I didn't want to be like the smug backpackers in The Beach, trying to keep their special place a secret. I wanted the Iranian people to reap all the benefits from engaging with the world and for the rest of us to wake up to the reality that Iran is not a nation of desert-dwelling terrorists.

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

It's all in your head -- you just have no idea how big your head is.

Age is never so old as youth would measure it.

Some sorts of truth are truer than others.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it is of necessity prejudiced in its own favour.

For there are roads and roads, and of truth there are orders and orders.

In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward.